Karolina SobeckaInstitute for Aesthetic Practice & Theory, HGK, Basel Jamie AllenCritical Media Lab, Basel & NSCAD, Halifax February 11, 2019 The Chamber (Reitz Student Union) 3 PM–4:30 PM About the Event It is that which at this instant, issuing out of a labyrinthine tangle of yeses and no’s, makes my hand run along a […]
February 7-9, 2019 UF Levin College of Law University of Florida For 25 years, the Public Interest Environmental Conference (PIEC) has sought to promote an understanding of the legal aspects of environmental protection, serve and inform individuals as to the necessity for improvements in environmental legal protection, foster the development of sound environmental legislation, […]
Isaac Augspurg & Oscar Psychas Guy M. Burns, Managing Partner, Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel and Burns, LLP Andrea Dutton, Assoc. Professor of Geology, University of Florida Andrea Rodgers, Senior Staff Attorney, Our Children’s Trust Wednesday, February 6, 6–8 PM Ocora (Main Room), Pugh Hall University of Florida Event is free and open to the public. No […]
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the Legal Right to a Stable Climate"
Simon Richter, University of Pennsylvania Getting Creative: Translation & Etymology as Cultural Narratives of Sustainability & Resilience November 13, 2018 Dauer 219 (Ruth McQuown Room) 5 PM–6:30 PM Polder-Geist: Dutch Responses to Rising Sea Levels & Sinking Cities in the Netherlands, the United States & Asia November 14, 2018 Dauer 215 12–1:30 PM Archived streaming […]
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Wednesday, November 14, 7 PM Civic Media Center 433 S Main St, Gainesville, FL 32601 Experts often describe Miami, Florida, as ground zero for the effects of sea level rise. It is expected to be the first of many coastal metropolitan regions in the United States to be seriously affected by rising waters. The […]
Marisol de la CadenaUniversity of California, Davis Friday, October 19, 2–2:45 PM Smathers Library 100 University of Florida Join us for an informal conversation with Marisol de la Cadena, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis. We will discuss Professor de la Cadena’s 2015 essay “Uncommoning Nature,” a call to readers to engage with […]
Keynote Lecture – Friday, October 19, 6 PM Panels and Roundtables – Saturday, October 20, 10 AM – 5 PM Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art University of Florida Join us for “The World to Come: Art, Politics, and Climate Change,” an interdisciplinary symposium in conjunction with the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art […]
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September 18, 2018 – March 3, 2019 Harn Museum of Art University of Florida The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene chronicles an era of rapid, radical and irrevocable ecological change through works of art by more than 45 contemporary international artists. We live in a world of imminent extinctions, runaway […]
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Art in the Age of the Anthropocene"
Nicole Starosielski Casey Boyle February 28, 2018 Scott Nygren Studio, Smathers Library West 3 PM – 5 PM Nicole Starosielski, “Digital Heat and the Infrared Image” All matter emits heat and is transformed by it. In thermal vision, such heat exchanges are transduced into visual images. And in turn, infrared images, entangled with infrastructures of temperature control, […]
Jorge Volpi Pedro Ángel Palou Eloy Urroz February 23, 2018 Reading Room of the Latin American and Caribbean Collection Third Floor of Smathers Library, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Archived streaming video of this event is available here Join us on February 23 for a wide-ranging conversation with three of the leading literary figures of modern […]
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The Responsibilities of Literature in the Late Anthropocene"